Maia Urstad is an artist working at the intersection of audio and visual art. She finished The Bergen National Academy of the Arts in 1981 whilst a member of ska/new-wave group 'Program 81', releasing 4 records and touring between 1979-84. In the eighties, her artistic medium migrated toward sound experimentation, and she has since 1985 worked with sound in various art projects, installations, site-specific concerts, theatre and films in Norway and internationally. In 2017, she was appointed as City Sound Artist of Bonn 2017, and is throughout 2018 exhibiting “Time-Tone-Passages”, a 40-channel site specific sound installation based on material from the radio archive of Deutsche Welle. Urstad’s work involves integrating sound into specific locations. Recent practice includes outdoor and indoor sound installations and performances. Technological progress and communications technology are pervasive themes in her projects, and she frequently uses radio as a key audio, visual and conceptual element, commenting on the temporary nature of present technology, and what traces and stories we leave behind when new inventions enter our daily lives. The sound-textures for these projects are made from found/concrete sound sources, particularly signals from radio broadcast and telecommunication. Maia Urstad curates and produces sound related art projects and exhibitions through her company «Maur Prosjekter» and has collaborated with a wide range of artists, curators and producers over the years. She is part of the international sound art collective Freq_out curated by CM von Hausswolff, and is co-founder of Lydgalleriet in Bergen.